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His Family tells the story of a middle-class family in New York City in the 1910s. The family's patriarch, widower Roger Gale, struggles to deal with the way his daughters and grandchildren respond to the changing society.

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WINNER - Pulitzer Prize (1918) In the bustling heart of early 20th century New York City, Roger Gale, a widowed father, grapples with the challenges of raising his three daughters: the ambitious Deborah, the domestically inclined Edith, and the free-spirited Laura. As Roger navigates... Read Full Overview

The story begins in the spring of 1913 with Roger Gale, a New York businessman and a widower, owner of a media monitoring service, reflecting on the changes that have come to New York since his arrival in the city as a young man from a New Hampshire farm somewhere near the time... Read Full Overview

Ernest Poole's "His Family" offers a compelling portrait of family dynamics against the backdrop of early 20th century New York City. This meticulously prepared print edition revives a classic exploration of social change and the immigrant experience. Through the lens of urban... Read Full Overview

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His Family is a novel by Ernest Poole published in 1917 about the life of a New York widower and his three daughters in the 1910s. It received the first Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1918.

He was thinking of the town he had known. Not of old New York-he had heard of that from old, old men when he himself had still been young and had smiled at their garrulity. He was thinking of a young New York, the mighty throbbing city to which he had come long ago as a lad from... Read Full Overview

Book Excerpt: ...Bruce came in. Of medium height and a wiry build, his quick kindly smile of greeting did not conceal the fine tight lines about his mouth and between his eyes. His small trim moustache was black, but his hair already showed streaks of gray although he was not... Read Full Overview

His Family, the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Ernest Poole tells the story of a middle-class family in New York City in the 1910s. The family's patriarch, widower Roger Gale, struggles to deal with the way his daughters and grandchildren respond to the changing... Read Full Overview